The Ugly 75-Horsepower Box That Gave Birth to Quattro Picture the scene. Frozen Scandinavia, somewhere in the winter of 1976. A team of Audi engineers is out testing prototypes on sheets of ice, and trailing behind them as a support vehicle is a squat, canvas-topped military runabout with all the visual charm of a filing … Read more
Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO: The Car They Changed the Rules to Stop Most race cars lose because something breaks, or because the driver lifts, or because the thing in front is simply quicker. The 1989 Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO managed something rarer and far more telling. It lost a championship while being the … Read more
Hoonicorn: a 1965 Mustang doing donuts on 1,400 horsepower of methanol Take a 1965 Ford Mustang Notchback. Steel body. The kind your dad watched go past the diner with fenders so wide they looked hand-drawn. Strip everything inside. Drop in a NASCAR-spec tubular chassis fabricated in Charlotte. Bolt up a 410 cubic-inch Roush Yates V8. … Read more
